R | 2 h 14 min | Drama | Comedy

The Boat that Rocked (2008)

The Boat that Rocked | France| Germany| United Kingdom

In 1966 – British pop music’s finest era – the BBC played just 2 hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio played rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people – over half the population of Britain – listened to the pirates every single day. Recently expelled from school, Carl (Tom Sturridge) has been sent by his jet-set mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy). However, Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, populated by an eclectic crew of rock ‘n’ roll DJ’s. They are led by The Count (Phillip Seymour Hoffman), big, brash, American, a god of the airwaves, and totally in love with the music. He’s faithfully backed up by his co-broadcasters Dave (Nick Frost) – ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny; Simon (Chris O’Dowd), super-nice and searching for true love; Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom), enigmatic, handsome and possessing an almost uncanny ability to have sex with anything remotely resembling a woman; Wee Small Hours Bob, a hairy late night DJ, whose hobbies are folk music and drugs; Thick Kevin (Tom Brooke), possessor of the smallest intelligence known to mankind; On The Hour John, the newsreader and Angus ‘The Nut’ Nutsford, who may be the most annoying man in Britain. They set about helping Carl on his quest to find himself by, well, mostly trying to find him someone to have sex with. Life on the North Sea is eventful. Simon finds the woman of his dreams and is married on the boat…only to be left by his bride 11 hours later. Greatest DJ in Britain, Gavin (Rhys Ifans) returns from his drug tour of America to his rightful position as greatest DJ in Britain – and clashes with the Count: A confrontation that ends in a dramatic and dangerous battle of nerve. And Carl discovers that his real father is one of the DJs. Tragically for him, it’s Wee Small Hours Bob, together with his beard. Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh Directed by: Richard Curtis

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Description

Director

Richard Curtis

Stars

Tom Sturridge
Carl

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Le Comte

Rhys Ifans
Gavin

Bill Nighy
Quentin

Emma Thompson
Charlotte

Nick Frost
Dave

Kenneth Branagh
Dormandy

January Jones
Eleonore

Gemma Arterton
Desiree

Jack Davenport
Twatt

Others...

Budget

50,000,000.00

Revenue

36,348,784.00

Links

Keywords

musical, rock, great britain, pirate radio, swinging 60s

Trailers

Production

Working Title Films, Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Medienproduktion Prometheus Filmgesellschaft, Portobello Studios, Tightrope Pictures

Actor

Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones, Gemma Arterton, Jack Davenport, Rhys Darby, Chris O'Dowd, Katherine Parkinson, Katie Lyons, Tom Wisdom, Will Adamsdale, Tom Brooke, Ralph Brown, Ike Hamilton, Sinead Matthews, Talulah Riley, Michael Hadley, Charlie Rowe, Lucy Fleming, Ian Mercer, Francesca Longrigg, Poppy Delevingne, David Sterne, Olivia Llewellyn, William Ilkley

Creators

Richard Curtis (Director), Richard Curtis (Writer), Hilary Bevan Jones (Producer), Tim Bevan (Producer), Eric Fellner (Producer), Ronaldo Vasconcellos (Producer), Emma Freud (Producer), Liza Chasin (Executive Producer), Richard Curtis (Executive Producer), Debra Hayward (Executive Producer), Danny Cohen (Director of Photography), Emma E. Hickox (Editor), Fiona Weir (Casting), Mark Tildesley (Production Design)

Alternative titles

海盜電台 (TW)
Pirate Radio (US)
海盗电波 (CN)
Los Piratas del Rock (SV)
Los piratas del rock (AR)
Radio pirate (CA)

Release dates

13.11.2009 (CA)
16.04.2009 (DE)
13.11.2009 (US)
06.05.2009 (FR)
24.10.2009 (JP)
30.07.2009 (CZ)
09.04.2009 (AU)
01.04.2009 (GB)